THE RAINs HAVE HELPED PUT OUT A 90 ACRE BRUSH FIRE... THAT AT ONE POINT WAS BURNING OUT OF CONTROL. ROADS had to be shut down IN MARTIN COUNTY. That FIRE IS BURNING AT THE SAVANNAS PRESERVE IN JENSEN BEACH. ARI HAIT HAS BEEN ON THE SCENE for several hours. ARI? nat of fire THE FLAMES WERE RAGING -- THE SMOKE WAS THICK AND BLACK. THIS IS THE SAVANNAS PRESERVE STATE PARK IN JENSEN BEACH AND VIDEOGRAPHER GREG DUNCAN AND I WERE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. THIS FIRE BEGAN WEDNESDAY MORNING AS A PRESCRIBED BURN -- IRONICALLY, A METHOD USED TO PREVENT BRUSH FIRES. THE PLAN WAS TO BURN FIFTY ACRES OF DRY LAND.AND EVEN IN THE EARLY STAGES, THEY KNEW MOTHER NATURE WOULD BE A FACTOR.dylan gavagni/park manager - 13:39-44 - weather this time of year is always a little more shifty so we're getting a little more westerly wind than we expected.THREE HOURS IN -- THE FLAMES WERE GETTING BIGGER -- AND CLOSER TO THE PARKING LOT OF THE PARK. melissa yunas/florida forest service - 43:30-38 - all of a sudden, the wind shifted. And the wind shifted coming out of an unbelievable amount of rate -- at twenty miles an hour.WITHIN MINUTES, IT WAS VIOLENTLY OUT OF CONTROL.melissa yunas/florida forest service - 43:38-47 - we saw an eighty foot fire whirl climb up the tree and the wind shifted, carried the fire, prescribed burn, in a different direction. melissa yunas/florida forest service - 43:53-01 - (ari) was there any way to have stopped this? there was...i don't think there was. You saw the fire whirl. The fire whirl was intense.THE FIRE SPREAD TO NINETY ACRES -- FORCING THE CLOSURE OF ALL ROADS AROUND THE PARK, INCLUDING U-S 1. HOMES IN THE AREA WERE NEVER THREATENED BUT FIREFIGHTERS KEPT AN EYE OUT.THEN CAME A BREAK -- THE FIRE REACHED A PRESCRIBED FIRE FROM A YEAR AGO -- NOTHING DRY THERE FOR THIS FIRE TO FEED ON.melissa yunas/florida forest service - 44:56-07 - once it hit that prescribed fire, it slowed down immensely and with an addition to the green river parkway as a road, those two slowed the fire down allowing our units to get around and control the fire. 3 TO SEE SOME MORE PHOTOS FROM THAT INCREDIBLE FIRE, HEAD ON OVER TO OUR WEB SITE. WE'VE GOT STILL PICTURES AND VIDEO ON WPBF DOT COM, áAND ON THE WPBF TWENTY